Rodents establish dominance hierarchy as a social ranking system in which one subject acts as dominant over all the other subordinate individuals. Dominance hierarchy regulates food access and mating opportunities, but ...

Spatial prepositions have been one of the greatest puzzles in linguistics in the the past few decades. In this thesis, we contribute to the understanding of this class, by investigating place (`em'/`in', `entre'/`between') ...

Social hierarchy is an ubiquitous principle of social organization across animal species. Although some progress has been made in our understanding of how humans infer hierarchical identity, the neuroanatomical basis for ...

Com a aceleração do processo de urbanização no país, vários centros urbanos passaram por transformações importantes, como o fortalecimento dos papeis desempenhados por eles nas redes urbanas e a intensificação das interações ...

Spatial data warehouses (SDWs) allow for spatial analysis together with analytical multidimensional queries over huge volumes of data. The challenge is to retrieve data related to ad hoc spatial query windows according to ...

Hamada and Shiu have recently shown that tree level amplitudes in QED satisfy an in nite hierarchy of soft photon theorems, the rst two of which are Weinberg and Low's theorems respectively. In this paper we propose that ...